Risk factors for injury in the career female dancer: An epidemiologic study of a broadway sample of performers

Medical Problems of Performing Artists

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 89-93

  Carvajal, Scott C ^a,d   Evans, Richard I ^b   Evans, Randolph W ^c   Nash, Susan G ^b   Carvajal, Thomas W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Educ Train and Research Associates   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DANCING; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0031689040     PISSN: 08851158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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